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Linux: Winning pretty much everything

Orv Beach Training Chair, Southern California Linux Expo System Administrator, St. Jude Medical * = ask me about it. Linux: Winning pretty much everything. Desktop Prediction by Carla Schroder. Linux on the desktop? No - Android on the desktop! Android logo is cute and friendly

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Linux: Winning pretty much everything

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  1. Orv Beach Training Chair, Southern California Linux Expo System Administrator, St. Jude Medical * = ask me about it Linux: Winning pretty much everything

  2. Desktop Predictionby Carla Schroder • Linux on the desktop? • No - Android on the desktop! • Android logo is cute and friendly • Open architecture means actual competition • Thousands of apps to choose from • Users already know how to use it

  3. Indiana Schools Google, IBM, Cisco Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, Wikipedia, etc., etc. Panasonic Virgin America ConocoPhillips Tommy Hilfiger ISS OpNet Where is it used?U.S. Entities using Linux • Department of Defense • Navy Submarine Fleet • Federal Aviation Administration • U.S. Postal Service • Federal Courts • Garden Grove, California • Largo, Florida • New York Stock Exchange • Burlington Coat Factory*

  4. Munich, Germany Spain French Parliament Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Pakistani Schools & Colleges Cuba Government of Mexico City But where else?Other Entities using Linux • Czech Post • Switzerland Schools • Russian Schools • Republic of Georgia • German Universities • Bolzano, Italy • Kerela, India • The Philippines • Peugeot, Toyota

  5. But where else?Supercomputers (482 / 500)

  6. Cars!

  7. Google-led Open Automotive Alliance (Android in the car)

  8. Phone switches

  9. Laptops

  10. Phones & Tablets*

  11. Ubuntu Phone!

  12. Firefox Phone!

  13. Plasma (KDE) Tablet!

  14. ..and Desktops(the last frontier...)

  15. Linux on the Desktop • Many different varieties – just like cars • Like cars – 95% the same... • Biggest differences: • User Interface (that mousey-clicky thing on the screen) • Package Management (can also be mousey-clicky)

  16. The Linux Desktop(s)The Graphical User Interface (GUI) • Windows* • GNOME (originally GNU Network Object Model Environment) • Unity (only on Ubuntu, by Canonical) • Plasma (aka KDE - “KDE SC”) • LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) • Etc, etc, etc, etc...

  17. The STACK! Applications (text) Other binary stuff (drivers, utils, etc.) Kernel

  18. The STACK! X-Windows Applications (text) Other binary stuff (drivers, utils, etc.) Kernel

  19. The STACK! User Interface (GNOME) X-Windows Applications (text) Other binary stuff (drivers, utils, etc.) Kernel

  20. The STACK! User Interface (Unity) X-Windows Applications (text) Other binary stuff (drivers, utils, etc.) Kernel

  21. The STACK! User Interface (Plasma) X-Windows Applications (text) Other binary stuff (drivers, utils, etc.) Kernel

  22. The STACK! User Interface (LXDE) X-Windows Applications (text) Other binary stuff (drivers, utils, etc.) Kernel

  23. GNOME

  24. Unity

  25. Plasma

  26. LXDE Desktop (on LXLE)*

  27. The Linux Desktop(s)

  28. How to install software!

  29. But Wait! There's More! • Home Servers (I.e, old computer running Linux) • Media servers • File servers / shares • Etc.

  30. But Wait! There's More! • NAS (Network Attached Storage) • Speaks Windows, Apple, Linux • Tons of nifty features

  31. But Wait! There's More! FreeNAS (Network Attached Storage)

  32. But Wait! There's More! FreeNAS (Network Attached Storage)

  33. But Wait! There's More! • Wireless Access Point* (“Router)

  34. But Wait! There's More! • Wireless Access Point (“Router)

  35. But Wait! There's More! • System Rescue CDs

  36. But Wait! There's More!System Rescue CDs • Live (bootable) CD • GUI or command line • Includes Windows A/V!

  37. But Wait! There's More! • Gparted (Available on Knoppix live CD) • Feature-packed partition editor (like Partition Magic) • Create, move, copy, resize, check, label, and delete partitions (including GPT) • Attempt data rescue from lost partitions

  38. But Wait! There's More! • MediaCenter - Mythbuntu

  39. But Wait! There's More! • MediaCenter – Geexbox

  40. But Wait! There's More! • MediaCenter - XBMC Live

  41. But Wait! There's More! • Smartphone replacement software • Latest kernel, tuned for efficiency • No crapware • Cyanogenmod – most popular • Many other “custom ROMs” available

  42. Home Automation (Google just bought Nest!) But Wait! There's More!Open Source Software! * • Office suites Libreoffice! • Video editors OpenShot, KDEnlive & Blender • Image editors digiKam & Shotwell • Sound editors Audacity, Sweep & Jokosher • Browsers Firefox, Chrome*, & Opera* Konqueror • Etc, etc, etc.

  43. Where to get the goodies! • Dedicated Firewalls • ClearOS - http://www.clearfoundation.com/ • PfSense - http://www.pfsense.org/ • M0n0wall - http://m0n0.ch/wall/downloads.php • Smoothwall - http://www.smoothwall.org/

  44. Where to get the goodies! • Wireless Aps / Routers • DD WRT - http://www.dd-wrt.com • OpenWRT - https://openwrt.org/ • http://www.myopenrouter.com/ (Netgear specific) • Media Centers • XBMC Live - http://xbmc.org/ • Mythbuntu- http://www.mythbuntu.org/ • Geexbox - http://www.geexbox.org/ • NAS - http://www.freenas.org/

  45. Where to get the goodies! • Linux distributions • Ubuntu – ubuntu.com • Fedora – Fedoraproject.org • LXLE – Lightweight distro: http://lxle.net/ • Korora - https://kororaproject.org/ • Knoppix - http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html • Cyanogenmod - http://www.cyanogenmod.org/

  46. Questions?

  47. Orv.beach@gmail.com Answers!

  48. For reference: • This presentation available • as PDF and Powerpoint • for download at: • www.orvsplace.net/temp/

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